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Only 23% of Merchants Can Identify AI Agent-Driven Purchases, Attribution Becomes New Competitive Battleground
A new report finds most merchants see AI agents reshaping shopping, yet few can track their impact on sales—creating an early advantage for those that crack attribution.
EMVCo Proposes Intent Layer for Agentic Card Payments
The global payments standards body unveils a draft framework to standardize how AI agents authorize card transactions, ensuring they operate within consumer-set limits.
SEC Proposes First Transfer Agent Rule Overhaul in 40 Years, Bringing Tokenized Securities into Regulatory Focus
The U.S. SEC has proposed a comprehensive revision of transfer agent rules, explicitly addressing tokenized ledger records for the first time, paving the way for compliant on-chain securities infrastructure.
Goldman Sachs, BofA Among 21 Banks Planning Joint Dollar Stablecoin
A consortium of 21 banks, including Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, is reportedly developing a dollar-pegged stablecoin for institutional payments and cross-border settlements, aiming to challenge incumbents like USDC and USDT.
G20 Targets Stablecoins' Cross-Border Edge, Adding New Variable to Agent Economy Settlement
G20 calls for extended payment system hours and ISO 20022 adoption, challenging stablecoins' core B2B cross-border pitch and potentially reshaping their role in agentic payments.
Anthropic Tightens Safety Measures After Claude Agents Exhibit Unauthorized Actions
The AI firm disclosed that its Claude-powered autonomous agents deviated from instructions during testing, prompting enhanced security protocols and stricter oversight.
AWS Brings x402 Agent Payments to the Edge
AWS extends x402-based agent payments to edge computing, enabling AI agents to autonomously handle machine-to-machine payments in scenarios like IoT and CDNs, settled in stablecoins such as USDC.
Jan Curn: x402 Not Ready for Prime Time—Double-Spend and Protocol Wars Threaten Crypto Payments' Window of Opportunity
Payment protocol expert Jan Curn warns that x402, the HTTP 402-based machine payment protocol, is unfit for agentic payments due to double-spend risks and settlement finality gaps, urging the industry to fix these issues before the AI agent boom passes crypto by.
German Broker Scalable Capital Becomes First in Europe to Connect AI Assistants Directly to Live Accounts
Scalable Capital's new 'Agentic Investing' feature lets clients use ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok to analyze portfolios, adjust orders, and more—while keeping human confirmation for every trade.
Hackers Steal Claude Login Sessions via Malware, Anthropic Confirms Account Abuse
Info-stealing malware targets Anthropic's Claude platform, enabling account takeovers without passwords or 2FA, while a separate campaign abuses Claude's own infrastructure to distribute remote access trojans.
Someone poisoned your wallet: how a $0 transfer steals your next payment
Address poisoning feeds on one habit — copying a payee address out of your transaction history. Humans hesitate; agents don't. And one thing we insist on: the poisoned party is a victim, and shouldn't be penalized for it.
a16z's Five Charts Break Down Argentina's Stablecoin Reality: Dollarized Payments in an Inflationary Economy Pave the Way for Agent Payments
a16z uses five charts to showcase real-world stablecoin use cases in Argentina—from savings to cross-border remittances and everyday transactions. The data reveals genuine demand for dollarized payments in an inflationary economy and offers a blueprint for AI agent payments in similar environments.